Bzzzt: Apples and Oranges, I'm talking about the original ore, that chart uses ore tailings, which are certainly not benign (I grew up in an area where mass qua

Bzzzt: Apples and Oranges, I'm talking about the original ore, that chart uses ore tailings, which are certainly not benign (I grew up in an area where mass quantities of lead and zinc were mined until the end of WWII), but they're very much not the same thing. Especially if the refining process also seperates some of the nastier things you'll find along with the uranium. Find some references with the ore and perhaps we can have a discussion. '"exceptional" events that yield enormous ecological damage' Which would total Chernobyl, which I've already pointed out a direction of some of its many problems.